Scotland 1373: Crispinus, the head of Oronsay Priory, is found dead, strangled and battered, his mouth stuffed with sand, in the middle of the tidal strand separating the holy island of Oronsay from the larger island of Colonsay. The Lord of the Isles, overlord of the islands, assigns the task of finding the killer to Muirteach, the Priors bastard son.Since breaking with Scotland 1373: Crispinus, the head of Oronsay Priory, is found dead, strangled and battered, his mouth stuffed with sand, in the middle of the tidal strand separating the holy island of Oronsay from the larger island of Colonsay. The Lord of the Isles, overlord of the islands, assigns the task of finding the killer to Muirteach, the Prior’s bastard son.Since breaking with his father and leaving the monastery, Muirteach has spent his time acting as scribe for his uncle, an island chieftain. Muirteach’s father, a powerful churchman, leaves behind a mistress and several other bastards as well as his embittered eldest son, who is thankful he will never hear the words, “My bastard son, the cripple” again.As Muirteach seeks to find his father’s murderer he is helped by the physician Fearchar Beaton, and his daughter Mariota. Muirteach himself is suspected of the murder, as are the Prior’s mistress, her family, and the sub-prior. The killer strikes again, His Lordship wants the mystery solved before the Pope and the King in Edinburgh learn of it, and Muirteach himself must come to terms with his own troubled relationship with his father.
Muirteach’s investigation submerges him deep into a whirlpool of deceit, long buried sins, and treachery, from which no one emerges unscathed. A very pleasant surprise for a first novel from a previously unknown-to-me author.
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Set in the 1370's in the remote Inner Hebrides (a group of islands off the coast of Scotland), it features a young man named Muirteach who is expected to find the murderer of his father. He is the bastard son of the local Prior, a man with many enemies, so Muirteach's task is not an easy one.The book presents that too-seldom found combination of excellent research and outstanding writing and storytelling which A very pleasant surprise for a first novel from a previously unknown-to-me author. Set in the 1370's in the remote Inner Hebrides (a group of islands off the coast of Scotland), it features a young man named Muirteach who is expected to find the murderer of his father. He is the bastard son of the local Prior, a man with many enemies, so Muirteach's task is not an easy one.The book presents that too-seldom found combination of excellent research and outstanding writing and storytelling which come together in the best possible way.
Looking forward to reading the second one if I can ever lay hands on it!I apologize for the lack of a 'real' review.time has slipped away and with 40+ books listed as 'currently reading' (obviously not accurate!) I need to just give a star rating and move along so I can catch up! Farming simulator 2008 mods. This was quite a surprise. It actually exceeded my expectations for a first historic mystery novel.
I picked it up quite by chance as I'm intrigued by all things Scottish and/or Medieval and this seemed as if it would fit the bill. Muirteach McPhee is tasked with finding the murderer of his father a not-so-holy prior. And it goes on from there. Great characters, great scenery and except for one itty-bitty-nit, great history. I have never heard of Tir Na Nog referenced as a Scottish story and so This was quite a surprise.
It actually exceeded my expectations for a first historic mystery novel. I picked it up quite by chance as I'm intrigued by all things Scottish and/or Medieval and this seemed as if it would fit the bill. Muirteach McPhee is tasked with finding the murderer of his father a not-so-holy prior. And it goes on from there. Great characters, great scenery and except for one itty-bitty-nit, great history.
I have never heard of Tir Na Nog referenced as a Scottish story and so the reference to it seems a bit out of place. I could be wrong but I've just never seen it with any Scottish connotation at all. I liked this so much I bought the next 2 in the series so I'm off to #2!
Recent years have witnessed growing scholarly interest in the history of death. Increasing academic attention toward death as a historical subject in its own right is very much linked to its pre-eminent place in 20th-century history, and Germany, predictably, occupies a special place in these inquiries. This collection of essays explores how German mourning changed over the 20th century in different contexts, with a particular view to how death was linked to larger issues of social order and cultural self-understanding.
It contributes to a history of death in 20th-century Germany that does not begin and end with the Third Reich. Alon Confino is Professor of History at the University of Virginia. He has written substantially on nationhood, memory, and historical method.
West of loathing download. His new book is Foundational Pasts: An Essay in Holocaust Interpretation (CUP, 2011).Paul Betts is Professor of European History at the University of Sussex. He is the author of The Authority of Everyday Objects: A Cultural History of West German Industrial Design (Berkeley, 2004) and Within Walls: Private Life in the German Democratic Republic (Oxford, 2010). He was Joint Editor of the journal German History, 2004-2009.Dirk Schumann is Professor of Modern and Contemporary History at Georg-August University, Gottingen. His most recent books include Raising Citizens in the 'Century of the Child“: The United States and German Central Europe in Comparative Perspective (Berghahn, 2010, edited), Political Violence in the Weimar Republic, 1918–1933: Fight for the Streets and Fear of Civil War (Berghahn, 2009).